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...Plan, hoping to show it up as a ridiculous racket and thus deflate its importance in the November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser risk seemed well worth taking: Jasper Bell, at the worst, would probably be able to discredit the Townsend Plan by showing that a lot of oldsters' dues money was going down a hopeless drain...
...merchants for that part of a cent not kept for the sales tax. Missourians found their pockets bulging with caps enough to start dairies. One dairy company delivered milk sealed with one-mill tokens. Storekeepers with rubber stamps printed advertising on the tokens' backs. Republicans scribbled on them: "Pendergast Money," "Vote G.O.P. and End the Sales...
...Manhattan, Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast, Democratic boss of Kansas City, surveyed with scorn the sorry plight of Tammany Hall, gave the following advice...
...Boss Pendergast's formula for treating the people right: "I am honest with the people. I gave them a good government. I take care of the poor. I give out all the jobs I can find. I never ask a man his politics, but I do him a good turn if I can. When I have treated the people right, they will vote my way on election day-that is, 75% of them will. The other 25% aren't worth bothering about...
Married. Thomas Joseph Pendergast Jr., son of Kansas City's Democratic Boss; and Mary Louise Weyer, daughter of a cosmetician; in Kansas City...